CARTOGRAPHIES by Macarena Nieves Cáceres, translated by Lena Peñate Spicer
Part of La Española’s focus on literature from Las Islas Canarias
This poem was first written for the exhibition “La tierra prometida (y otros dildos)” by visual artist, José L. Luzardo, and appeared in the exhibition catalogue published by the Canarias Government.
cartographies
And, in the bosom of the earth’s revolt
you deny the old boundaries that the sword seals.
Maria – Mercé Marçal
| I There are islands that coagulate continents on the back of a saddle becoming es-culturas planets that threaten to fall but which the cosmos sustains like a worldly womb that undermines obliquely – the cyclopean eye of the phallus its delusions sacrifices that become illegible ironies of antidote or becoming-death: bastard that ruminates -in colonising pro-creation- the conquest. | II The promised land shapes the journey in the willingness to touch (with the blue hand) the world that wishes to give itself to the world opens multiple paths of steps (to come) of edges from the beyond to the hereafter to the infinite that bends in ecstasy transvestites and there where the winds seek to perpetuate life the arts disturb their way -on the fly as an affirmation of faith |
By Macarena Nieves Cáceres
Translated by Lena Peñate Spicer
Macarena Nieves Cáceres was born in the Canary Islands where she now lives and works. She is a writer, poet and visual artist whose works have links to feminism. She has been a member of the team promoting and editing the magazine Al-harafish since 1997, where she has also coordinated the poetry edition since 2004.
Lena Peñate Spicer is an artist and translator who was born in the united Kingdom and now resides in Tenerife.
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